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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

DEBORAH P. MCKENNEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET AND eowN STAY.

SFECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,322, dated November 25, 1 902 Application filed August 14, 1902. Serial No. 119,638. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEBORAH P. MCKEN- NEY, of Boston,- in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset and Gown Stays, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide an adjustable stay which may be secured to the steel on the loop side of the corset, that being usually the right-hand side, and which will engage with the clothing worn outside of the corset to retain all the clothing in the desired position.

tion upon the garments with one of the clips engaging the lower side of one of the loops of the corset. Fig. 5 shows how the clip may pass through the loop instead of bearing up against the under side. vation showing a modification.

Fig. 6 is a front ele- Fig. 7 is a cross-section on line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is section on line 11 llof Fig. 5.

a front elevation of another modification. Fig. 9 is a side elevation of Fig. 8.. Fig. 10 is'a rear elevation of Fig. 8. Fig. 11 is a Fig. 12 shows the device attached to the corset and with the hook over the top of one of the underskirts. Fig. 13 shows the device as in Fig. 12, with the addition of the waist which extends over the undershirt of Fig. 12, the hook after hooking over the top of the undershirt passing through a bnttonhole or an opening in the waist. Fig. 14 shows a dress-shirt outside of the undershirt shown in Fig. 13, the hook extending over the top of the dress shirt.

1 Referring now to the drawings, the stay is formed of astrip 1, having at the upper end a forwardly and downwardly turned hook 2,

near the right-hand edge, are a plurality of clips or teeth 3, which extend rearwardly and then laterally crosswise of the strip at a proper distance therefrom for the covered corset-steel 5 to be embraced between the strip 1 and the clips. The clips are preferably turned slightlyinward at the ends 4 to enable them to grip the covered steel more firmly. In many of the corsets on the market, especially the imported ones, the loops are socured to the steel by rivets 16, the ends of which project above the face of the strip. In order to permit the stay to slide over these projecting ends, the inner face of the strip 1 is preferably formed with a channel 15 lengthwise thereof to allow the strip to slide over the rivets 16 without interference while the i stay is being adjusted.

When the device is applied to use, it is slipped onto the steel 5 on the loop side of the corset at such a position as will bring the book 2 at the desired Waist-line and bring one of the clips 3 into engagement with one of the loops tion the steel below the waistline, either by engagement with the lower side of the loop, as shown in Fig. 4, or by passing the clip through the eye of the loop, as shown in Fig. 5.

Figs. 12, 13, and 14 illustrate the application of the device as the several articles of clothing are put on.

In Fig. 12 the device is attached to the corset 17, and the hook 2 goes over the top band of the nndershirts 18. If a waist 19 is worn over the corset, as shown in Fig. 13, and extends below the desired waist-line, the hook after passing over the skirt 18 will pass through a buttonhole or opening 20 in the waist 19. Then it will hook over the outside shirt 21, as shown in Fig. 14. If a belt 22 is worn, the hook 2 will be covered and concealed from view when the belt is buckled.

The clips should be sufficiently near together so that when the device is adjusted on the corset-steel at whatever position necessary to bring the book 2 at the desired waistline, where the clothing can be held, one of the clips 3 will engage with some one of the loops 6 in one or the other of the two ways above mentioned to prevent the stay from slipping upward.

For additional fastening of the device I prefer to form thread-holes 7 in the strip to permit it to be sewed to the covering of the steel wherever there is one of the threadholes.

The hook 2 is preferably formed with a slot 23 in the end to engage with the fastening of all belts and buckles or with the hook and eye where the waist is worn outside. It is desirable that this slot should be in line with the middle line of the corset and in line with the fastening of the belt, which is in the middle of the front of the waist-line. As the stay is attached to the steel on one side of the corset, if the hook 2 is turned over directly in front of the strip 1 with the slot in the middle of the hook the slot will not be in line with the corsetopening. In order, therefore, to bring the slot into line with the corset-opening, the hook is preferably formed as shown in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, in which the hook is shown with a portion extending laterally to one side of the inner edge of the strip 1, so that the slot 23, which is in the middle of the hook, will be in line with the middle line of the corset when fastened together and engage with the fastening of the belt or buckle or hook and eye of the waist when worn outside.

In the modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the upper clip 8 is made slidable, and therefore the adjustment may be secured without the necessity of so many clips as required when they are all fixed, as in Fig. 1.

In the modification shown in Figs. 8 and 9 the stay is made extensible by having it formed of two overlapping strips 9 10, provided with means for adjusting them with relation to each other and locking them together. In the form shown one strip, 9, is formed with a series of holes'll and the other strip, 10, is formed with a locking pin or stud 12, adapted to engage with said holes. The strip 9 is provided with aguide-loop 13,through which the other strip slides, and a slide 14:, which can be moved down toward the stud 12 to hold the stud in engagement and be slid back to permit springing the strips apart to withdraw the stud. This slide should also preferably be formed as a clip.

What Iclaim is 1. A corset and gown stay consisting of a strip having at its upper end means for engaging the clothing worn outside of the corset at the desired waistline, and a plurality of clips extending from said strip rearwardly and crosswise of said strip to engage the corset on the loop side'thereof, any one of said clips being adapted to engage with'the loops so that one of the clips will engage with one of the loops below the waist-line when the said hook engages with the clothing at the waist-line, substantially as described.

2. A corset and gown stay consisting of a strip having at its upper end a forwardly-extending hook for engaging at the desired waist-line the clothing worn outside of the cor- I set, a plurality of clips on said strip extending rearwardly and then crosswise thereof to engage the loop side of the corset between the strip and the clips, one of said clips also being adapted to engage one of the corset-loops below the waist-line to prevent slipping up, the lowermost clip being fast to the strip and one clip intermediate the two ends being slidable on said strip, substantially as described.

3. A corset and gown stay consisting of a plurality of strips slidable on each other, means for locking them together at difierent positions to form a strip of variable length, a forwardly-extending hook at the upper end to engage at the desired waist-line with the clothing worn outside of the corset, and a plurality of clips on said combination-strip extending rearwardly and laterally crosswise thereof to engage the corset on the loop side thereof between the strip and the clips, one of said clips being adapted to engage one of the corset-loops below the waist-line to prevent slipping up, substantially as described.

4. A corset and gown stay consisting of a strip having at its upper end a forwardly-extending hook for engaging at the desired waist-line the clothing worn outside of the corset, a plurality of clips on said strip extending rearwardly and then crosswise thereof to engage the corset-steel on the loop side thereof, any one of the clips being adapted to engage with said loops so that one of the clips will engage with one of the loops when the said hook engages with the clothing at the waistline, the ends of said clips being slightly substantially as. described.

5. A corset and gown stay consisting of a strip having at its upper end means for engaging at the desired waist-line the clothing worn outside of the corset, means for attaching the strip to the steel of the corset in a manner to permit sliding of the stay for adjustment on the steel, and a longitudinal channel in the rear face of the strip to allow for riding over the projecting ends of the rivets on the steel, substantially as described.

6. A corset and gown stay consisting of a strip having at its upper end a forwardly and downwardly extending hook for engaging at the desired waist-line the clothing worn outside of the corset and having means for engaging the said strip with the corset on the loop side thereof, said hook having a portion which projects laterally beyond the inner edge of the strip and having a slot therein which will be in line with the inner edge of the strip and with the middle line of the corset when fastened together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DEBORAH P. MCKENNEY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. COPELAND, ROBERT WALLACE.

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